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El Paso kidnapping suspect arrested in Oregon

An El Paso woman accused of kidnapping her two children was arrested Wednesday in Oregon by the U.S. Marshals Service, officials said.

Paula Beatriz Solis, 30, was wanted on two counts of aggravated kidnapping and two counts of interference with child custody, the Marshals Service said. Solis was indicted earlier this month after an investigation by El Paso police.

Officials said that the U.S. Marshal's Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force arrested Solis without incident at a home in Oakridge, Ore., a town of about 3,000 people located 40 miles east of Eugene. The children were found attending classes at a nearby elementary school.

The children were turned over to Oregon child protective services authorities, which are working with Texas Child Protective Services in El Paso to reunite the children with their father, officials said.

Officials said that Solis was booked into the Lane County Jail in Oregon under a $60,000 bond pending extradition to Texas.

In July 2014, Solis and the children's father divorced, the U.S. Marshals Service said. The father got full custody of the children, but Solis left with the children before the divorced was finalized.

The case was taken up by the U.S. Marshals Service in El Paso on Jan. 22 after she was indicted. Investigators soon learned Solis had gone to Oregon and contacted the fugitive task force in that state.